Nauen museum, Local museum in Nauen, Germany

The Museum der Stadt Nauen was a local history museum founded in 1901 and dissolved in 2001. It occupied several school buildings, including the gable room of the former Realgymnasium at Berliner Straße 16 and the attic of the Mädchenschule at Kirchplatz. Its displays included a furnished farmhouse parlor and a Biedermeier room.

The museum was founded in September 1901 by the bookbinders Gebhard Eckler and Ernst Georg Bardey, who ran a paper and stationery shop and secured subsidies from the city, district and provincial administration. It began as a private institution for researching Osthavelland history. In 1920 the city took it over, with Eckler as director. In 1945 Soviet soldiers destroyed its weapons collection, and the new administration discarded much of the remaining stock.

The museum helped shape how visitors understood and experienced Nauen's past. Through its displays, local traditions and the way people lived in earlier times became visible to the public.

The museum occupied a sequence of converted school buildings: first the gable room of the former Realgymnasium at Berliner Straße 16, then a classroom and later the attic of the girls' school at Kirchplatz, and from 1989 the house at Rathausplatz 2. It was dissolved at the end of 2001; only a Heimatstube with the remaining permanent exhibits stayed in the rear building.

The 1695 town fire destroyed Nauen's oldest written records, so the city archive holds original documents only from after that year. Museum founder Ernst Georg Bardey searched the town hall attic repeatedly and moved everything important for the city's history into the museum.